About the show:

Elizabeth Streb and her superbly-conditioned performers are on a great, romatic action adventure, as they pursue, possess and exemplify pure action. In STREB : BRAVE they join forces with adventurous artists from other disciplines, composer David Van Tiegham, the MIT Media Lab and the trapeze virtuosos, Noe and Ivan España. The action, literally, never stops in STREB : BRAVE as this high-powered team explores perpetual motion and our old friend, the circle. For STREB, perpetual motion is not just a concept but an action. STREB : BRAVE not only keeps the performers leaping, spinning and soaring, but the structures around them, under and over them will be in motion as well. STREB finds ingenious ways to turn traditionally unoccupied surfaces into new performance terrain, giving audiences new ways and places to look at the unexplored world right around us. For some, a circle is just a circle, but for STREB "the circle produces invisible forces... the structure itself is in motion. So, it is immeasurably complicated. There is no beginning and no end and the challenge is to decide when the events occur and how to do this in an authentic and organic way."

STREB : BRAVE challenges audiences as it reconfigures the proper platform for witnessing Action. STREB : BRAVE's rotating floor will always be turning. There will no longer be a 'front,' but instead an ever-altering array of points of view and angles of perception. Which way is up? The performers will have to be constantly space-shifting their positions and their actions as the ground slips always out from under them. STREB : BRAVE creates the thrills of the circus, the heart thumps of a great adventure movie, and the velocity of the Indy 500 in one big, crowd-pleasing Action Event. Beautiful bodies engaging sexy new hardware in show-stopping pieces like ORBIT, AIR-LAUNCH, SMASH, FREE FALL and out WHIZZING GIZMO will keep audiences on the edge of their seats, wherever in space those seats happen to be.

Action Collaborators

Elizabeth Streb: Action Architect/Choreographer
Elizabeth Streb, Shock Studios, Noe and Ivan Espana: Set Design
Laura Flanders: Librettist
Aaron Henderson: Projection Design
David Van Tieghem: Sound Designer
Zaire Baptiste: Sound Engineer and Collaborator
Justin D'Apolito: Technical Direction and Design

Cast

Jackie Carlson
Sarah Donnelly
Leonardo Giron
Ami Ipapo
Cassandre Joseph
Kevin Lindsay
Fabio Tavares